Is Edward Snowden a villain or a hero?

He is the National Security Agency leaker, the guy who leaked information about U.S. surveillance programs that target terrorist communications.

And he’s hanging out in Hong Kong, enjoying the publicity and waiting to see what will happen to him.

From all indications the stuff this guy leaked was legal, and the government was doing nothing wrong by gathering it. But so many people want to make him out as a hero for letting the world know what the big, bad government was doing, spying on us.

Please.

This is a guy who, we are told, illegally stole documents pertaining to the surveillance programs. His big mouth could have alerted terrorists to how investigators are going after them.